The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-08-24


It seemed like writing Of strife
among the angels Of paradise, says Q
Long Branch special to The PhiladcI
phia Press, when / autographed yor
last night brief dispatch on tho strike
of the walters at the little. rose-bowered
hotel called the Elberon. II is picture
of elegant quiet and repose in itself,
and II there is place in Che land
where the 0arcon attends you with an
mir of heightened politeness or the chief
hands you out with obsequious bowling
1t Is In this aristocratic caravansery. The
vulgar question of wages, one would
think, would never disturb the dreamy
quiet Of Elberon, where millions touch
elbows with millions, but give wide
sweep when less comes near. The man
with n bank account we'll up toward
seven figures is the only one who is
welcomed by the Elberon ''set," but he
goes along well enough If he has one.
Yet we find the men serve these
millionaires actually striking for more
pay! / am told that there is side of
the story of tho strike that has not
been published. The trouble was not
so much the size of wages as the size of
the 'tip''-or rather its lack of size.
One would suppose that II there were
no tips to be had from millionaires it
woald be pretty hard scraping to pick
one up elsewhere, but the opposite
seems to be the case.
The best seaside waiter gets 1922 a
month and his "tips." In hotel
where the guests are fairaly liberal his
tips average 81 a day, but the Elberon
walters, both last season and this, have
struck because their tips amounted to
scarcely half of it. The richer the man
the less the tip, seems to be the case.
At the large and more popular hotels
at the Branch everybody tips. 1t is
useless to try to get any kind of SER
vice. without tipping, and many men
go to the verge of liberality with the
attendant. Decent clippers" are evil
IDENTITY few and far between among Ell
boron millionaires, for the walters have
always complained.
Everyone who does anything for you
at a Long Branch hotel expects to be
tipped for it. A guest would soon find
himself frozen out if he neglects to tip,
and it gets to be rather serious ques-
ton If one is trying to spend mouth
or so here on n slender purse. The
waiter is not the only one who must be
tipped. You will find toll-gate at
every step, turn which way you will.
for everyone from the shoeblack up
expects something if he merely mods to
you every morning. Open your pock-
et-book to him and you are greeted
with smiles; keep it closed and you are
ignored. The liberal clipper" gets
the best seat in the dining-r DOM; he
never waits for his food, and he gets
twice as much as he asks for. The IL
liberal one is put over in corner,
where he waits half an hour before a
darkey finally condescends to notice
him. and has to take whatever he can
get. A guest at one of the biggest
hotels here made out list of his regu-
lar tips for me this morning. How
much do you think they amount TOP
Here they are in tabulated form:
Waiter per week. 90
per month. ........... B 90
Head waiter so as to set good table,. 90
Headportcr, on arriving, for not smash
ing trunks. 900
Bootblack, average weekly. 80
Bell-boy for answering calls, average
weekly. ...................... %
Bell-boy, for not using wlslS-broom on
you when you pass them, average week.
ly..................... ~
Average each week ON others. ......... l 90
Total In tips" ......................$2 $40 90
OF course, this is man with fami-
Iy and one who wants to live in COM
fort all the season. He is the most
popular man in the hotel among the
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